A very elderly example of an online movie-tie-in web comic, this part-animated prequel to Pitch Black gives us our earliest – at the time – sighting of one Richard B. Riddick.

The Slam City of the title is a maximum-security stockade somewhere called Ursa Luna, which is not so maximum that it can hold Riddick. The interstellar sociopath gets himself free, but not before we learn that this is where he underwent the operation to have his eyes “shined” for nocturnal vision - and it only cost him a packet of menthols. Bargain! We also meet Johns (Cole Hauser’s character) for the first time here: he’s employed to take the recaptured Riddick onward to lockdown somewhere even more severe. Pitch Black picks them up on that route.

This whole story was later completely rejigged / contradicted by the rather good Escape From Butcher Bay videogame, making its canonicity dubious, but it's an interesting adjunct to the film.

what about the graphic novels produced for Southland Tales? they were actually integral to the story line of the movie and made a whole lot more sense of it. And they were all written by Richard Kelly, surely they deserve a mention for die hard Richard Kelly fans and also people who slated the film. More

Posted by hi charlie on Tuesday July 9, 2013, 19:35

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No mention of the 2000AD Shaun of the Dead prequel (brilliant) or the various Watchmen prequels (dreadful)? More